Life Lessons | Week 1 | Baptism

Series: Life Lessons, where the focus is on life in Christ! We want to Celebrate it, Certify it, Experience it, Live it…together.

Water Baptism Certifies Salvation and is for everyone who has believed in Christ!.

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Outward symbol to attest to in inward change

The Bible teaches that:

1. Salvation is an individual knowledgeable decision to allow Christ to be Lord of your life and to be led by the indwelling person of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 10:9-10 (NIV) 9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. …then Immersion into Water or Water Baptism

That is why we don’t baptize or Christen children…”dedicate children” to the care and admiration of loving parents to lead them to salvation (then education) then water baptism that certifies that salvation experience!

2. Baptism certifies believing -

Acts 18:8 (NIV)Crispus, the synagogue ruler, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard him believed and were baptized.

3. Immersion is emphasized

It’s the best symbol:Colossians 2:12 (NIV)having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

Jesus’ example - Matthew 3:16 (NIV) As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him.

Every baptism in the Bible was by immersion.Acts 8:38-39 (NIV) And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.